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Electrify Your Career!
Imagine
a world where you earn while you learn. A world that
allows you to earn a salary for 5 years while
receiving FREE college credits.
That world is here now at the IBEW/NECA
Training Center. This is the apprenticeship and
education center for the members of International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local
82. IBEW local site: www.ibewlocal82.org
NECA local site:
www.wocneca.org
Why
become a Union Electrical Worker?
Why
pay high tuition costs when you can earn while you
learn! Apprentices start earning a livable wage as
soon as they start working. They receive pay
advancements throughout their apprenticeship.
- Great
employment opportunities
The
industry employs over 650,000 electrical workers and
70,000 electrical contracting firms and produces an
annual volume of over $95 billion.
- State-of-the-art
training
Our
goal is to provide the highest quality training in the
electrical industry. Apprentices are provided trade
related classroom training that produces competency
and pride that lead to t rue craftsmanship. And, Union
programs graduate about three times as many
apprentices to journeyman status as do non-union
programs.
- Equal
opportunity for all
Enrollment
of minorities in union apprentice programs is about
three times the number enrolled in non-union programs,
and there are four times as many women enrolled in
union training. Graduation rates of minorities and
women from union apprentice programs is three times
that of non-union programs. The all-trades graduation
rate for union apprentice programs was 82.2 percent,
compared with 17.8 percent for non-union programs.
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